{"product_id":"lynching-photographs-volume-2-9780520253322","title":"Lynching Photographs: Volume 2","description":"Why do we look at lynching photographs? What is the basis for our curiosity, rage, indignation, or revulsion? Beginning in the late nineteenth century, nearly five thousand blacks were put to death at the hands of lynch mobs throughout America. In many communities it was a public event, to be witnessed, recorded, and made available by means of photographs. In this book, the art historian Dora Apel and the American Studies scholar Shawn Michelle Smith examine lynching photographs as a way of analyzing photography's historical role in promoting and resisting racial violence. They further suggest how these photographs continue to affect the politics of spectatorship. In clear prose, and with carefully chosen images, the authors chart the history of lynching photographs--their meanings, uses, and controversial display--and offer terms in which to understand our responsibilities as viewers and citizens.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDora Apel\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor and W. Hawkins Ferry Chair in Modern and Contemporary Art at Wayne State University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eMemory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing\u003c\/i\u003e (2002) and \u003ci\u003eImagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women, and the Mob\u003c\/i\u003e (2004). \u003cb\u003eShawn Michelle Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture \u003c\/i\u003e(1999) and \u003ci\u003ePhotography on the Color Line: W.E.B. DuBois, Race, and Visual Culture \u003c\/i\u003e(2004).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50325005271314,"sku":"9780520253322","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3f3bd870-3101-4b37-98ea-209320299cf0.jpg?v=1727678089","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lynching-photographs-volume-2-9780520253322","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}